The latest forecasts on the growth of mobile broadband predict revenues of $137 billion globally by 2014 but, despite that, operators will have to content themselves with the fact that user growth will be far faster than actual revenue growth.

Cyber risks and actual attacks have grown significantly in the past two years and are expected to continue to grow in the next two years, with many organisations experiencing tangible losses as a result of the attacks.

Defying global economic pessimism, Wincor Nixdorf – the world’s second largest supplier of ATM machines and a global provider of IT solutions to retail banks and retailers - has expanded into Australia, with the establishment of an Australian subsidiary and today’s opening of a Sydney office.

ArcSight, a global provider of compliance and security management solutions, is establishing an operation in Australia with the aim of expanding its market presence in the Asia Pacific region through the appointment of a chief salesman for Australia and New Zealand.

A new report released today warns that the state of the global financial services industry, in the current world economic downturn, could increase the risk of potential internal and external fraud attempts in the world’s banks.

Adoption of unified communications solutions (UC) by companies in the Asia Pacific region is low, although China leads the region in adoption with 35% of Chinese companies having already deployed a UC solution.

Cisco has unveiled its first Australian Customer Briefing Centre (CBC), a US$3 million Internet protocol networking technology showcase in its Sydney offices.

There’s been a warning that publication of the Federal Government’s “black list” of pornographic and violent websites has fatally damaged its proposed compulsory Internet filtering regime.
 

A flood of spam has infiltrated the Twitter microblogging community, with new Twitter scams ‘popping up right left and centre’ according to F-Secure, which says it discovered a fake Twitter account that tricks users into a Google scam by promising a free Range Rover.

Macquarie Telecom has called on the Australian Government to ensure its data centre strategy, planned in response to the Gershon data centre recommendations, includes clear, environmental standards for individual data centres to be measured against.

Rittal, a worldwide provider of enclosure technologies, is set to unveil a series of ‘significant innovations’ at CeBIT Sydney designed to enable organisations to maximise the efficiency and security of their data centre operations.

A seemingly impossible sparkle of green light from a silicon chip has opened up a whole new field of possibilities for communications devices, including exponentially shrinking the hardware needed to guarantee high quality Internet connection, according to researchers at the University of Sydney.
 

Australian businesses, it seems, are making more rapid progress than their counterparts in other countries, particularly the UK, in planning ahead for the effects of carbon pricing.

Server shipments have plummeted in the Asia Pacific region as the economic crisis sweeping the region and the rest of the world worsens.

WebSpy, a global vendor of internet monitoring, analysis and reporting software, claims ‘remarkable success’ with implementation in February of an e-commerce initiative in a partnership with e-commerce service provider, Avangate.

Undeterred by current economic conditions, Extend Technologies has expanded its business into Western Australia, adding a new SAP partner for local organisations in the mid-to-large enterprise space.

The Australian International School of Singapore (AISS) has expanded its 3Com-based campus-wide network with the addition of new network switches and an upgraded VOIP system from 3Com.

Inside Info, a business intelligence application vendor, says deployment of its QlikView BI platform by a South Australian manufacturer and distributor for the building and construction industry, has reduced by 500 hours – or the equivalent of one working month a year – the time spent by the company’s IT team producing reports.